I Wanna Be a Hippy

"I Wanna Be a Hippy"
Single by Technohead
from the album Headsex
Released	16 June 1995 (1995-06-16)
Genre	Hardcore techno gabber
Length	5:03
Label	Mokum
Songwriter(s)	Lee Newman Michael Wells
Producer(s)	GTO
Technohead singles chronology
"I Wanna Be a Hippy" (1995) "Headsex" (1995)
Music video
"I Wanna Be a Hippy" on YouTube

"I Wanna Be a Hippy" is a song by English electronic music group Technohead. The vocals were taken from David Peel's song "I Like Marijuana", which he sang in the 1989 movie Rude Awakening. It first appeared as the B-side to the group's Mary Jane EP, issued by Dutch hardcore techno label Mokum Records. John Peel featured the track "Mary Jane" on his show on 10 February 1995, which helped give the release recognition.

In June 1995, "I Wanna Be a Hippy" was released as the lead single from the group's first album, Headsex (1995); the single includes a remix by Dutch-American production duo Flamman & Abraxas. The song appeared on the mainstream charts later that year, peaking at number one in Austria, Flanders, Germany, and the Netherlands and reaching the top 10 in several other countries. In the United Kingdom, the song peaked at number 77 during its original release, but when re-released in early 1996, it reached a new peak of number six. Its accompanying music video was directed by Matthijs Van Heyningen Jr. and filmed in a park in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

In January and February 1996, Technohead performed the song live on Top of the Pops twice, although both performances had the references to marijuana censored.^[1] In September 2019, in celebration of Mokum Records' 200th release, Tellurian and Technohead released a remix of the song known as the "Panama 2019 Mix".^[2]